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- New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.
- Four female New Yorkers gossip about their sex lives (or lack thereof) and find new ways to deal with being a woman in the late 1990s.
- The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts.
- Another installment of Bravo's "The Real Housewives" reality show. In this series, they focus on housewives living in New Jersey.
- An affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.
- A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
- A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
- Three nurses deal with patients and personal issues at Mercy Hospital.
- A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.
- Sherry tries to integrate again into society and become a good mother.
- Grace, a football enthusiast, fights an uphill battle to play in the boys' varsity team of her high school and gain support for women's soccer while dealing with the death of her brother.
- In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
- Performing on what looks like a small wooden stage, wearing a dress with a hoop skirt and white high-heeled pumps, Carmencita does a dance with kicks and twirls, a smile always on her face.
- Debbie (Diane Lane) and Gerald's lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in their lives.
- Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.
- This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- An ex convict befriends an elderly coworker as they both try to find meaning in life and forgiveness for their past.
- A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.
- Annie Oakley, the 'Little Miss Sure Shot' of the 'Wild West' gives an exhibition of rifle shooting at glass balls and clay pigeons in a film from the Edison Catalog.
- Bound by the injustice of her untimely demise, Julie's ghost returns to seek vengeance on her killer.
- A college student suffering from memory loss discovers that he is on the verge of a major, scientific breakthrough, but he soon finds out that the one thing he's been searching for is the one thing he's been trying to forget.
- One of W.K.L. Dickson's laboratory workers horses around for the camera.
- The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.
- A fine exhibition of horsemanship by Lee Martin, a genuine cowboy. This particular broncho is an unusually wicked one. (from Edison Films)
- James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
- Two men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.
- A martial artist/ survivalist must play a game of cat-and-mouse with a maniacal sadistic Man by the name of Santos and survive against five killers in order to save his life as well as his girlfriends.
- An athlete swings Indian clubs.
- In an experiment that follows up on the results of 'Monkeyshines, No. 1', an Edison company worker again moves around in front of the motion picture camera.
- Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dance routines. She uses her dance steps and her long, flowing skirts to create a variety of visual patterns.
- "King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home." (from Edison Films)
- The very first American film shown to public audiences and the press. It depicts William K.L. Dickson taking off his hat and greeting the audience.
- Customer gets a lightning-fast shave.
- Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.
- "This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of the great inventor. The scene is an actual one, showing Mr. Edison in working dress engaged in an interesting chemical experiment in his great Laboratory. There is sufficient movement to lead the spectator through the several processes of mixing, pouring, testing, etc. as if he were side by side with the principal. The lights and shadows are vivid, and the apparatus and other accessories complete a startling picture that will appeal to every beholder."
- An Edison company worker makes large gestures in front of a Kinetoscope to test the new camera system.
- Strong-man Eugene (Eugen) Sandow poses in a long shot on a bare stage against a black background, wearing only tight trunks and laced sandals. He begins with his arms folded against his chest, looking off screen left, then strikes a variety of poses that accentuate his muscular development. These positions include flexing his right arm with the fist to his head and face to shoulder; turning his back to the camera and flexing his upper arms and shoulder muscles; and, with his back still to the camera, stretching out and up with one arm at a time. Sandow then turns back to face the camera and performs a standing back flip. He closes in the same pose with which he opened From Biograph photo catalog: 24 feet. Still another picture of the great athlete displaying his muscles, and turning a somersault without touching hands to the floor.
- "A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)
- Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest a butterfly. As she dances, she uses her long, flowing skirts to create visual patterns.
- A charming representation of the Mikado dance by three beautiful Japanese ladies in full costume. Very effective when colored. (from the Edison Catalog)
- Three Sioux Indians perform a 'buffalo dance', while two others use drums to supply a rhythm. The three dancers move around in a circle as they perform the various actions that are part of the dance.
- Set in 1971 during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration, Heading Home tells the story of an unlikely friendship. Horace, Frankie Faison "Silence of the Lambs", "Coming to America", TV's "The Wire") an African American bus driver whose son is MIA, drives a charter of young white middle-class war protesters to Washington, D.C. During the course of a long spring night, Horace befriends Kate, a troubled white 17-year-old girl, Margaret Welsh ("Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"). Overcoming their differences, Horace and Kate forge a friendship that transcends the boundaries of age and race, and celebrates the possibilities of the human spirit. Also stars Emmy Award Winner Allison Janney (TV's "The West Wing") and a moving performance by Mary Alice ("The Matrix Revolutions").
- "Firemen in working uniform, rubber coats, helmets, and boots. Thrilling rescue from burning building. Smoke effects are fine." - from the Edison Catalog
- Two gamecocks are fighting inside a wire cage, while two spectators look on in the background. The two men agree to make a bet on the outcome. One of them shows his money to the other, who is commenting on the fight.
- In the background, five fans lean on the ropes looking into the ring. The referee is to the left; like the fans, he hardly moves as two fighters swing roundhouse blows at each other. Mike Leonard, in white trunks, is the aggressor; in black, Jack Cushing stands near the edge of the ring, warily pawing the air as Leonard comes at him. A couple of punches land, but the fighters maintain their upright postures.
- One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the other heating iron at the forge. One would be seen to drive the nail into the shoe of the horse's hoof, to change his position and every movement needed in the work was clearly shown as if the object was in real (life). In fact, the whole routine of the two men's labour and their movements for the day was presented to the view of the observer.
- Champion Lasso Thrower Vicente Oropeza (aka. Vincente Ore Passo/Bisento Orapeso/Vincenti Orapazza) shows his skills.
- A young man lost in the wilderness struggles to escape the memories of his troubled past.
- Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films made for Edison's kinetoscopes.